Sharkoon Flexi-Drive Gets Officially Launched

It appears that Sharkoon doesn't feel like letting this week go by without some sort of product announcement, so it isn't really that big a surprise to learn of a new flash drive series.

The market for USB flash drives is one that grew quickly, exponentially even, during the first months of its life.

Basically, the Universal Serial Bus proved quite convenient, as did the NAND Flash memory, after which everything evolved until Flash storage reached the variety of form factors of today.

Flash drives continue to remain one of the most commonly encountered means of backing up and/or transporting data.

As such, it would have been odd for storage solution specialist Sharkoon to not cater to the needs of this segment.

That said, the company has created the Flexi-Drive series of such devices, complete with the support for the newest iteration of the universal serial bus standard.

For those that need a reminder, the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 connection is one that has a theoretical maximum throughput of 5 Gbps.

This is ten times the maximum capability of the USB 2.0 technology and is the reason external/portable drives can work at speeds of multiple hundred gigabytes per second.

In this case, the Flexi-Drive can go as high as 200 MB/s and 120 MB/s when reading and writing data, respectively.

These data rates are achieved thanks to not just the interface, but also the 8-channel architecture that Sharkoon chose to implement.

As for exact storage capacity, 64 GB and 128 GB versions exist, with prices of 139.90 Euro and 229 Euro, respectively. Not really the most affordable of tags, to be sure, but their performance and capacities aren't exactly common either.

Both utilize MLC (multi-level cell) NAND Flash memory chips and have black shells with capped design, measuring 79 x 27 x 9.3 mm.